I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'.… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. — Heath L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
